Michael Scott’s The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel to be adapted for the silver screen
Lorenzo di Bonaventura (G.I. Joe: The Rise of the Cobra/Transformers) has signed a deal to produce a big screen adaptation of Michael Scott’s six-part fantasy book series The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel.
Di Bonaventura is no stranger to supernatural success stories; as production president at Warner Bros., he was integral to the genesis of the ‘Harry Potter’ series, ushering the first two movies into production before leaving the company three years later to take up a producing deal at Paramount.
The books are centred around Nicholas Flamel, the real-life French alchemist who was born in 1330 and was rumoured to have pursued the secret to immortality through his work on the philosopher’s stone. The books’ other protagonists are 15-year-old twins Sophie and Josh Newman, who travel around the world with Flamel in search of adventure.
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Delacrote Press, an imprint of Random House, has published three books in the projected six-part series: The Alchemyst, The Magician and The Sorceress with The Necromancer due in May 2010.
New Line originally acquired the rights to the ‘Flamel’ series in 2006 but were forced to make them available again following the studio’s downsizing last year. Di Bonaventura’s next picture is the upcoming spy thriller ‘Salt,’ starring Angelina Jolie and Liev Schreiber.
An authority on mythology and folklore, Michael Scott is one of Ireland’s most successful authors. A master of fantasy, science fiction, horror and folklore, he has been hailed by the Irish Times as ‘the King of Fantasy in these isles’. He lives and writes in Dublin.
Posted: November 21st, 2009
Author: Lee
Categories: Michael Scott
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